Keeping track

摘要

Freight security and product integrity concerns have driven the increased interest in constant surveillance technologies and fuelled new developments. Rising levels of cargo theft and a shift of higher value cargo from airfreight to sea (see Grounded, CI January issue, pp45-46) has provided added significance to this. There are no published statistics for cargo theft on global container trades but anecdotal evidence points to rising levels of risk. For instance, Austin (TX)-based security consultant Freight Watchers International estimates that the value of commodities stolen in US truck larceny alone leapt by 67% in 2009 to USD487 million, while recorded cargo thefts rose by 12% to 859 incidents.